Aggregation behavior of nanoparticles: Revisiting the phase diagram of colloids

M Bini, G Brancolini, V Tozzini - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Surface functionalization of metal nanoparticles (NPs), eg, using peptides and proteins, has
recently attracted a considerable attention in the field of design of therapeutics and …

Microphase versus macrophase separation in the square-well-linear fluid: A theoretical and computational study

D Costa, G Munaò, JM Bomont, G Malescio, A Palatella… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Due to the presence of competing interactions, the square-well-linear fluid can exhibit either
liquid-vapor equilibrium (macrophase separation) or clustering (microphase separation) …

Theoretical interpretation of pH and salinity effect on oil-in-water emulsion stability based on interfacial chemistry and implications for produced water demulsification

A Miadonye, M Amadu - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The petroleum industry produces thousands of barrels of oilfield waters from the initial stage
driven by primary production mechanisms to the tertiary stage. These produced waters …

Thermodynamics, static properties and transport behaviour of fluids with competing interactions

R Perdomo-Pérez, J Martínez-Rivera… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Competing interaction fluids have become ideal model systems to study a large number of
phenomena, for example, the formation of intermediate range order structures, condensed …

Colloidal soft matter physics

R Castañeda-Priego - Revista mexicana de física, 2021 - scielo.org.mx
Colloidal soft matter is a class of materials that exhibit rich equilibrium and non-equilibrium
thermodynamic properties, it self-assembles (spontaneously or driven externally) to form a …

Thermodynamic Signatures of Structural Transitions and Dissociation of Charged Colloidal Clusters: A Parallel Tempering Monte Carlo Study

FV Prudente, JMC Marques - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Computational simulation of colloidal systems make use of empirical interaction potentials
that are founded in well-established theory. In this work, we have performed parallel …

Experimental study on flocculation effect of tangential velocity in a cone-plate clarifier

Y Zhang, P Liu, L Xiao, Y Zhang, X Yang, L Jiang - Separations, 2021 - mdpi.com
A large number of particles with small size and light density in mine water are difficult to
remove by traditional separation equipment. In order to improve the efficiency of mine water …